Filmfare Awards are one of the prestigious Indian cinema awards that acknowledge Hindi Cinema. These awards are a set of different awards like Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, etc.
There are many cinema awards, in India, to acknowledge the talent of film Cast & Crew. These awards are like a token of love and respect towards their work and contribution to the Indian Film Industry.
Filmfare Awards are given to the persons of Hindi Cinema to acknowledge and grow their contribution and talent.
The Filmfare Magazine introduced these awards in the year 1954. The Filmfare magazine belongs to The Time Group. Since then these awards are presented every year. However, the award ceremony was not held in the year 1987 and 1988.
Filmfare Awards are devoted to Hindi Cinema only. However, it has varients of Indian Cinema too. Filmfare Awards South, Filmfare Awards East, and Filmfare Marathi Awards are also presented by the Filmfare Magazine.
The Filmfare Awards were initially called “Clare Awards”. The name was given after Clare Mendonca, the editor of The Time of India (Times Group).
National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards both were introduced in the year 1954. National Film Awards were decided by a panel appointed by the Government of India. Whereas, Filmfare Awards adopted a different in contrast to the National Film Awards.
Filmfare Awards introduced a dual voting system. This dual system consisted of public voting and the opinion of a team of experts. The Filmfare Awards became very popular and the dual system was one of the reasons for their popularity.
First Filmfare Awards
The First Filmfare Awards was held on 21st March 1954 in the Metro Theater, Bombay (now Mumbai).
There were only five Award Categories in the 1st Filmfare Awards.
Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Music Directors were the awards presented in the first award ceremony.
Filmfare Awards is one of the oldest and biggest Indian Cinema Awards Function held every year.
Filmfare Awards have already completed sixty-five years since the First Filmfare Awards held in 1954.
We have seen many records made during these years. We have also witnessed many record-breakers.
This segment of Records will facilitate you with some record holders and record makers.
This segment pacifies lots of queries of film lovers. You might have several Filmfare queries like:
Who has won the most awards in Filmfare Awards?
Which film received the most Filmfare nominations?
Which film has won the most awards?
Which Male / Female has won the most Filmfare Awards?
Who has won Filmfare Awards in most categories?
There are lots of questions you can ask about the Filmfare Awards. In this section of Filmfare Award Record, we have tried to reply to all possible queries regarding Filmfare Awards and Records.
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